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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Home Entertainment 3

Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ arrived via amazon in one day! I couldn’t resist and jacked it into a tv at work to see how it is. Firmware update.
First impressions: the UI is pretty old-skool. It’s not SO bad, it’s just not super pretty and not super intuitive. But, it’s serviceable, and better than the WD TV [...]

Home Entertainment 2

So I picked up an WD TV Live from Costco on an impulse to try it out (and knowing they have a pretty lenient return policy). It’s pretty much garbage.
1. The built-in internet radio stuff only works with Pandora (useless to me) and Live365 (a pay service that doesn’t have any of the good [...]

Prefab from UW

This is intensely bad-ass and I want it yesterday. Bitmap level recognition of GUI stuff, with interpretation. The possibilities here are huge: